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The Best Episodes of Thunderbirds Are Go!

Every episode of Thunderbirds Are Go! ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Thunderbirds Are Go!!

Remake of the hit 1960s television show. In the 21st century, Jeff Tracy, a former astronaut, amasses a colossal fortune and decides that he must...
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Best Episodes Summary

"Legacy" is the best rated episode of "Thunderbirds Are Go!". It scored 8.7/10 based on 67 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/23/2016. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Long Reach (Part 1)".

  • Legacy
    8.7/1067 votes
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    #1 - Legacy

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 1/23/2016

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Long Reach (Part 1)
    8.7/1030 votes
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    #2 - The Long Reach (Part 1)

    Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 2/15/2020

    International Rescue attempt their most difficult mission ever while defending Tracy Island from a dangerous assault.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • SOS (2)
    8.6/1035 votes
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    #3 - SOS (2)

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 6/8/2019

    Gordon travels in Thunderbird 4 to recover Braman but discovers that the Chaos Crew have gotten to the robot first. An underwater battle ensues and both Thunderbird 4 and Gordon are harmed.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Up From the Depths (Part 1)
    8.5/1054 votes
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    #4 - Up From the Depths (Part 1)

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/2016

    Gordon ventures deep into the Marianas trench to rescue a survey team, and ends up discovering an early International Rescue prototype vehicle once flown by Jeff Tracy. Gordon takes Thunderbird 4 down to save the crew and get a better look at the prototype. But the survey ship, designed by The Mechanic, transforms and wrecks Thunderbird 4. Gordon is forced to abandon ship and seek refuge on his dad’s TV-21 plane. To save the survey crew, Gordon powers up the plane and manages to take it up to the surface.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Heist Society
    8.4/10107 votes
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    #5 - Heist Society

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 11/21/2015

    International Rescue are dispatched to save one of their own when the Hood traps Lady Penelope and Parker inside an underwater hyper-train loop during a high-stakes robbery.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Long Reach (Part 2)
    8.4/1034 votes
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    #6 - The Long Reach (Part 2)

    Season 3 Episode 26 - Aired 2/22/2020

    International Rescue attempt their most difficult mission ever while defending Tracy Island from a dangerous assault.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Recharge
    8.3/1067 votes
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    #7 - Recharge

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 11/28/2015

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Colony
    8.3/1051 votes
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    #8 - Colony

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/12/2016

    When a transport ship carrying colonists heads straight into the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Thunderbird 3 is deployed to regain control.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Man From TB5
    8.3/1046 votes
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    #9 - The Man From TB5

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 11/11/2017

    Lady Penelope brings John as her guest to a charity event while Gordon and Alan take the watch aboard Thunderbird 5.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Signals (1)
    8.3/1027 votes
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    #10 - Signals (1)

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 6/15/2019

    Through the use of archive footage, Brains informs the team of a discovery, but in order to gather more information, our heroes split into groups and search for an escape pod missing since Jeff Tracy's crash.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Rob Hoegee

  • Chain Of Command
    8.2/1062 votes
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    #11 - Chain Of Command

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 1/2/2016

    During a joint operation between International Rescue and the Global Defence Force, a series of mishaps nearly ends in disaster. In the wake of the botched mission, Colonel Martin Janus takes over the GDF...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Touch and Go
    8.2/1058 votes
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    #12 - Touch and Go

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 1/9/2016

    A facility known as CATCH, from where all air traffic in North America is controlled is sabotaged and Scott and Virgil handle a rescue mission involving a mid-air plane collision while Kayo infiltrates the facility using Thunderbird Shadow. Kayo discovers that this is a diversion and part of a much bigger plan by the Hood. Disregarding Scott and John's instructions regarding International Rescue's mission to save people and not act as policemen she puts herself in danger and is saved by an unlikely source.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Up From the Depths (Part 2)
    8.2/1049 votes
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    #13 - Up From the Depths (Part 2)

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/26/2016

    After the Mechanic flees the scene with the TV-21, Scott is in hot pursuit. But, when the villain steals some volatile iridium, Brains must make drastic alterations to Thunderbird 3 to save the day.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Rigged for Disaster
    8.2/1035 votes
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    #14 - Rigged for Disaster

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 12/2/2017

    Lady Penelope, Parker and Kayo arrive on the scene of a massive semi-submersible ocean oil rig to decommission the polluting relic, but supervisor Malloy has other plans.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • SOS (1)
    8.2/1028 votes
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    #15 - SOS (1)

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 6/1/2019

    IR receives a distress call from the Calypso, a space vessel returning from a long mission. Scott and Virgil get aboard the plummeting ship and locate the disoriented crew along with an old robot named Braman, who sent the original distress call.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Skyhook
    8.1/1076 votes
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    #16 - Skyhook

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/6/2015

    International Rescue scrambles all the flight-capable Thunderbirds to rescue the crew of CIR.R.U.S, a high-atmosphere weather station, now in danger due to the arrival of a fierce storm. TB1, TB2 and TB3 are quickly crippled by the conditions, and the only hope of salvaging the mission lies with TB5 - and John's ability to mount his most daring rescue ever.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Deep Search
    8.1/1053 votes
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    #17 - Deep Search

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/29/2016

    Thunderbirds 3 and 4 are need on Europa, one of Jupiter's moon, when a pair of documentarians fall into an ice ocean. This leads Alan to make first contact with an alien lifeform.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • EOS
    8.0/1082 votes
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    #18 - EOS

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/16/2015

    A series of cascading equipment failures leads John to realise that rogue A.I. has gained control of Thunderbird 5. The programme is sending false monitor images to Tracy Island to deceive the other brothers. John finally gets through to Lady Penelope and informs her of the situation. Once the other brothers figure out what is going on, Alan is despatched in Thunderbird 3 to rescue John.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Relic
    8.0/1063 votes
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    #19 - Relic

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 11/7/2015

    Concerns arise when a meteor shower is projected to hit the decommissioned Shadow Alpha One moon base, and attempts at contacting the lone crew member, Captain Lee Taylor, are unsuccessful. Scott and Alan take Thunderbird 3 on a rescue mission and Scott boards the base and finds Taylor attempting to maintain the base and it's defence system against meteors. After initial attempts to defend the base, against continuing waves of meteors, Scott and Taylor are forced to abandon the base to meet Thunderbird 3 at a rendezvous on the moon's surface that itself is threatened by the meteor shower. Guest Star: Rich Hall as Captain Lee Taylor.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Breakdown
    8.0/1063 votes
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    #20 - Breakdown

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 11/14/2015

    Virgil attempts to rescue a mining crew trapped inside a glacier, but the scientist in charge of the project refuses to leave.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Power Play
    8.0/1043 votes
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    #21 - Power Play

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 10/7/2017

    International Rescue have to stop the failure of a dam when The Mechanic sabotages it, but he is not the only threat they will face.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Inferno
    8.0/1041 votes
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    #22 - Inferno

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/11/2018

    In London the Crystal Spire, the tallest building in the world, catches fire due to an electrical overload and the local firefighters are rendered helpless. Virgil and Alan are called to extinguish the flames and rescue everyone trapped inside.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Break Out
    8.0/1022 votes
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    #23 - Break Out

    Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 1/18/2020

    In order to build a T-drive engine for the Zero-X, Brains needs help from the Mechanic. The trouble is, the Mechanic is locked inside a space prison known as the Hex.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Fireflash
    7.9/1099 votes
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    #24 - Fireflash

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/25/2015

    Kayo is riding aboard Fireflash, a supersonic airliner invented by Brains, but she is unaware that its controls have been tampered with. International Rescue notices the plane has vanished from their monitors and attempt to locate it. Kayo realises that the plane is flying in the wrong direction, and manages to avoid a powerful gas attack that has knocked out both passengers and crew.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Hexpert
    7.9/1063 votes
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    #25 - The Hexpert

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 12/12/2015

    A scientist accidentally locks herself inside a vault which is being used to store unstable matter. There is only one person who has successfully broken into a vault like this - Parker. Colonel Casey of the GDF recruits Parker for the job, but the safe cracker ends up locking himself and Lady Penelope inside as well. Virgil and Scott transport the vault to an isolated area on Thunderbird 2, where Parker and Penelope must try and free themselves and the scientist before the anti-matter explodes. Note: This episode is a homage to the original Thunderbirds episode, Vault of Death

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A